Metonymy in Contemporary Art

Denise Green witnessed the September 11 attack on New York's World Trade Center from the window of her studio in Barick Street. Transfixed, she continued to paint. Applying pigment to canvas seemed to her the only way to function in the surreal context of this extraordinary and unthinkable event. Denise Green traces her experience of living and working as an artist in New York for more than three decades. Arriving there in the 1970s, she developed new aesthetic attitudes in the company...
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Denise Green witnessed the September 11 attack on New York's World Trade Center from the window of her studio in Barick Street. Transfixed, she continued to paint. Applying pigment to canvas seemed to her the only way to function in the surreal context of this extraordinary and unthinkable event. Denise Green traces her experience of living and working as an artist in New York for more than three decades. Arriving there in the 1970s, she developed new aesthetic attitudes in the company of important American artists - some of whom, including Alex Katz, Dorothea Rockburne, Frank Stella and Robert Motherwell, she interviews for the book. However, she attributes her overall development as an artist to a much wider spectrum of experience including her travels in India and her appreciation of the arts of Aboriginal Australia. This book relates her unique experience of an ex-patriot artist whose paintings are now exhibited internationally.